Videotaped deposition of Robin Nicol- Atze Akkerman and Elizabeth Akkerman vs. Mecta Corporation, 2004
Deposition of Robin Nicol, the Owner of Mecta, one of two US ECT device manufacturers.
Deposition of Robin Nicol, the Owner of Mecta, one of two US ECT device manufacturers.
A letter to the Patient Safety Comminsioner on behalf UK ECT Improving Standards Group.
"The tenets of the Nuremberg Code were not meant only for Nazis. If Nazis presented the only danger to people being used for medical experiments, eliminating the Nazis would have solved our problems. The Nuremberg Code was written to guide all of us, because good intentions are not enough."
Ahistorical ECT instruction sheet from the Royal College of Psychiatry, 1982.
Researchers haven't been able to agree on how electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) works, but there are two features that may help us understand the mechanisms involved.
A case report of a woman who experienced seratonin syndrome following ECT.